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单词 new country
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new country
f. Recently inhabited or settled; previously occupied only by indigenous people. Frequently in new country.Sometimes hard to distinguish from sense A. 2c.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [adjective] > colonized > recently
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1811 Sydney Gaz. 23 Feb. All those Persons to whom he has promised to give small Grants of Land in the New District of Airds, shall attend at Mr Meehan's Farm.
1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 331 In the early settlements..of new country, its progress in improvements is slow.
1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers I. viii. 113 This term, Patent..was a term in common use, throughout the new parts of the state.
1871 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 176 If he..must go to what is called New Lands, he has to be careful in his selection.
1888 Bulletin (Sydney) 10 Mar. 14/1 A young fellow..was sheep-droving..away in the ‘New Country’ north of the alligator line.
a1957 S. J. Perelman in Road to Miltown (1957) 155 I..casually mentioned the name of a C.I.D. inspector over in the New Territories who might like to know that.
1977 R. Edwards Austral. Yarn 14 They'd go out and prospect the alluvial... They would walk out into the new country and pick up handfuls of soil.
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